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May 98, 1868.] 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
491 
that of excessive fat meat to one of a less wasteful and 
we observe a change in the taste of the operative from. 
П 
| more fleshy description. 
results of these experiments may in 
Combining this with. the 
AASA 0 ego " УГ 
MIUVUIHUCU UUI 1 t 4 
th that 45 Mies: Li 
ultivation of an aninial of 
в. coneludin 
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p м ч 42 чә р т o wg ы a 
" m 84 e Weights of & g 3 n $a g $888 8 ЕЕ = Bu | Loss upon | Pront 
"P. o 7 эч и g 8 EE E 3 z n $y зз up upon 
2 ео fed ЩАС Oa cmm umm 85|) &8 PES srpa |B Е Е 3.5 |mutton and mutton and 
a FE FT а E 38 ET $5 ki $35 |Ң сЕ P d ЕЕ! wool. wool, 
Descriptionof | 2 2o $a ss ае RIS EET $ E S E E i 
- rl © í is 23 ЕЧ ра 3 x ч 
Sheep. В KE: $8 ёти i i B|.9| Se © & $$ |. нан 55 5 [ЕЕ Ei 5 ч °g And showing the relative 
4 ET AD ga ёрдо | 9 Ww *r Bre о: oH 2н ед рн iu DES е o od AM i" the eie d 
я [юс [каб R|,-2|/3!/272|$3]3]|-5]|Zs«| Ss ва S8 55.8885) зо |g33| £ 5 28 Doar 
s osn osn| 9| F вүо |а| | 55 |25 se wd CAES IRA UESTRE i EC s Ki € 
А ЕЁ E A. ЗЕ |А [АЕ JB Б Р > ta ai ч = & > S 
lst ]b.|[st. Ib.| Ib. |, 1b.| Ib. | Ib. | 1b. | Ib. stones| 10. |£ з. d.|£ s. £s 4.| lb. d. |£ $ а| 10. | s d: |£ 5. d.|£ s. d. Sad & s. d. 
Shropshire eie .. 6 (82 1| 89 9/106|84 7|747| 3941101) 80] 1159 | 255 2 8 351 3 10 312 921 67 63 |117 81| 192|1 7112139 9 0 2 5 - 
Lincolns ZH 6 |83 8 |100 111 241193 1|804| 69 | 95|104| 1305 | 857 |2 14 8113 514 710| 148 64 |8 17 1| 345 |1 8 |217 6 [614 7 i 269 
Leicesters T | 78 10|718|4 76 | 1112 | 25512 6 4 1 10213 10 23 91 6 2 5 6 21 1 72114 14319 74 0 9 43 
North Shee 1195 4 80! 74| 1421 1 306 2 19 241 $ 8114.7 102! 197 6} 15 6 81| 22511 711 16 6217 3 31 215 4} 
TABLE SHOWING THE RESULT WHERE TWELVE SHEEP, THREE OF EACH CLASS, WERE FED UPON TURNIPS ALONE АТ BARROWBY, FROM THE 19TH OCTOBER, 1862, то тне l8TH Marcs, 1863. 
а | Ф А = 
t F .84 g Weights of 8.18 8 3 E ВЕБЕ 
в Ви ak E 2 2.18 я 5 EEES 
j Sr а. 238 8 t E 4. |5888 
285 82 «8 ЕЕ 38| 3 ЫРЫ 
Description of Sheep. че = 5а Бы E 28 E Е ЕЁ 
Ё 58 Ыф) $ = ; r- “а гей [i е ч 79 
2 iud 8.9 $ 28 8 E S43 A og 5р 5 5 аз”. M 
я |. 35 ERE: E юй 521315 3 1531281 3a |8 8 з задач 
E 584 S5 5 5 Е E 8 |415 5% |А E: Sa E 4 EEEE 
Я E E S E ri E ё À |A & > E [| > zi 
st. Ib. st. Ib. st. Ib. st, Ib. Ib. n Л Ip. & 5 HI m A [^ É ғ... £ s. d. 
88 2 $9 1 0 13 35 12 303 | 24 019 6 13 5} 
[o p РЕ: Н 96 0 111 511 38 10 321 343 | 42 48 47 61 14 b т 1 8 189 213 93 
Leicester —.. 3 34 0 7 б 8-5 84 6 808| 93.| 37 | 84 | 80 | 6 015 0 114 1.7 018 81.| 113 81 
North Sheep. 8 54 12 43 1 8 3 40 7 352 | 9051 42 71 168 | 118 54 | 10 1 7} 016 7$ | 215 M 
TABLE SHOWING THE RESULT Y P, THREE 9r. zaon CLASS, WERE FED урон, CarroN САКЕ AND TURNIP AT STOURTON GRANGE, THE AMOUNT OF CAKE NOT GIVEN, 
NG BEEN hg MR WITH OTHER SHEEP. 
j 8 8 8 42 10 E 204 | 45 38 75 63 22 4 104 17 016 7i 2 18 10 
Sopak te i има 3 E 8 9 р 12 4 87 2 400 | 37 | 43 | 50 |14 16 | 214 3 184 18 110 10 450 
Leicesters _. à 3 94 1 4 13 36 4 317 | o 31 89 | 43 6 PU 12 1 019 6 210 
LüsoMhs 3 35 8 12 1 45 1 391 | 234 | 42 | 39 ]104 | 64 | 916 4 114 1 7 019 1 815 5 
little muscle, but IT Leiren to TR on of fat, and 
consequently les not to ourselves be thé 
most profitable. 
Parlington, April 13, 1863. Tuos. J. Fox. 
LAWS OF HUSBANDRY. 
extracted from a lecture lately 
i ili Wefore ihe Royi -IuaüdHó by Professor 
per ed 
Voelcker. 
p analysis of all fertile soils has revealed in. —À 
| 
min neral food- constituents of plan 
matters which are "rp io be essential 
Чуаш in which this ТИНЕ found that liquid 
ure, after the passage through a bed of an ordinary. 
"t soil, атаи а ual o if tribution jn Pus 
surface soil, t 
soil was deprived of smell and 
ТА Мг. M: to деше а Жа of experimental 
of soils T n 
mpos 
| the subsoil, ihe Th dud ү: 
as well as m 
manuring agents which are e ied to the land,| 
unquestionably are giis punsou а е 
s which w n the agricultural 
capabilities ot different soils. 
g іп a variety 
T: tel 
E рма the кок of | sub 
Ка especial the powerof absorbingand retaining, | 
modifyin ways the crude ре 
ET ет È — of —— арсы difforent, 
revue y found that all p e powers of 
x Е acid, potash, soda, lime, арам 7 
oxide n, chlorine ; rid Mein ic, 
and шав acid; in nA, all the mineral 9$ tuents 
m are es Е 
hese 
—" Chemistry, in its Application to enia which 
as given the death low to the humustheory, 
the fertility or barrenness of a soil was generally con- 
etaining onia; some mo " m m He cet 
| noticed hat the amount of ammonia pt pe by the 
same soil varied with the strength of the ammoniacal 
80 olution, more ammonia being taken ^a by the soil 
+ +1 {. П lbi 
stro han from a weaker solution. ` 
the ashe! pla 
ral or fen “constituo. I need hardly "Observe, are 
not merely accidental, but 
EET. 
ай come to maturity. In 
se 
T 
eM 
equatty important, for the absence of any single one in the study of 
the soil 
is detrimental to the luxuriant development of th 
< 
e теи and expected the bare pos the opp ze а 
апа фе presence or deficienc of humus. Little or no : 
| to its. 
ie: ngs, wi 
pid, RATS eh 
the ps ek ie fic na 
and m 
i р 
cit 
and the ash-ana alyses of plants, would enable them to 
of 
Ks with wh 
tms vil еше ГҮ givė assent to this mineral theory. 
Ww else the а i agrictiltural 
ümmoniaeal 
impaired by the crops raised upon it; to improve | га 
ү gr purely mineral manuring mixtures every 
description of lan d, and to grow on it, irrespective 
PW 
of | soils possess likewise the 
rom à ngert 
abd that fn 
short thi possessed t] tö төшїп 
һе Haad important fertilising constituents of 
y be passe 
which m 
solution. 
Still more b Ar than the facts respecting the. 
pid absorption of free alkalies icy acids i8 the 
Eva by "ihe same chemist that all Marien 
2 separating 
ssed through them in a sfalé i 
Күс "with th Я [^ de: functio: 
e form in which the soil-con- 
order that it мА bear fruit, all 
penu Р an ааа truth, which no треснет 
disc 
any.kind and almost any amount i agricultural 
produce 
These. extray: a and unphilosophical views, I need 
hardly remark, Ё produced a reaction which has 
power 
ammonia, I f 
binations. - Thus dx , пепо раней тди К ammonia 
owly through a 
layer of soil 5 or 6 inches dee eep, it ткаш that 
the clear liquid after filtration no Lom ong Am n 
can inv T 16 is the S hatural to 
арени or barren soils a 
ене Я ciency ог | than formerly, m the same time more scientific, ezaminata of е ы liquids. fe бе. 
total absen ore of th i Mai con: | and th iheruiare done d directly y pafat to p AC ETE e alkaline salt is apa d 
— which enter ir into oH MES А: coio potilion Of|agriculturist. Till within the REM by the soil, atl that the latter 
crops. The ical examination of soils has Viu he characters of soils, it Xd. et рова power, f consequétióe of which the acid of 
в кт ind аны ie оао some much in a one-sided direction. On the мн salt Sh the soil, тте in com- 
instances erm ded deficiency of lime, or to me aed erely the relative proportions th n with lime, whilst the base alone is absorbed 
at of riĉ acid, or the deficiency о! er im c cons dr pe age as оро һу Lan altar. 
in numerous other cases, indeed in phosphorie acid, lime, &c., various soils These Lp cen have since been confirmed by 
majority of instances, 25 low state of fertility or ihe med sufficient E "соон "for E. their тале Liebig, b 
barrenness of soils cann be t У | pe culi ariti jes; and on e other sical : 
t, nor fe qui s of|, Prof. Woy аА operated with simple Mr 
the presence in тев of а subs aps injurious to |t their chemical зын T canno E Бе denied, ki "to pois е be ed, ua m 
vegetation. The fi "Ч ів Раману c бөйпебеа of a big Пу complex mixture of soluble 
th the absence but with the inaccessibility of {һе | physical condition and the chemical composition sibetances, "ut as that presented in liquid Баум 
minerai constituents to the feeding organs of plants. | soils, but this relation has not been as yet fully recog Aer place а gas the Mu EXE У to 
Allthe substances needed by дене аге often n present ees For along time we have been in the habit of of m 
in the soil in uem 
-the 
LM. ue 
wever, excluding such and similar obvious causes | and 
Ноў 
of sterility 4 оп which time does hot allow. me to 
is 
he Lus considered | loo. 
d twithstandi 
ве for instance | that wich it prodüces 
E ing lime, magn 
in consequence of its contain- 
magnesis and other s. 
p in 
special men boy fiin a Prot. Way'e merits in 
opening а nere wd icu as field for future , nio 
y 
enlarge, ' undeniable that thé mere -chemical 
ата of lains but rarely чу S Wheat or 
Clo Ly dr uriantly on one soil and not er, 
or ui iliser which i у eh de 
iny effect on another of apparently 
well known 
eed 
in regard natural ca 
rule cannot be дыме separati 
or scanty. presence 
of tion, 
very generously — 
Lem poa chemists, who have built upon the 
y 
e Way’ s investigations cr Hamene S 
of Mr Th олара dt Kio t 
in in 1845, first eoa sie a 
Sar, vh 
of 
cated 
the remarkable properties 
whi 
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